Selassie Berhane
University of Pennsylvania Class of 2024
Computer Science BSE | Economics Minor
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Available for hire
About me
Hey! Let me introduce myself👋
I'm Selassie. I recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BSE in Computer Science and a minor in Economics.
I began my journey into programming in 2016, and immeadiately fell in love with the problem solving aspect of it immeadiately. After 8 years of coding, I have worked on a variety of projects, ranging from simple websites to complex sis.
When I'm not in school or work, you can find watching or playing sports (mainly soccer, football, and tennis), playing poker, or religiously stalking and updating my Letterboxd and Beli.
Experience
Here is a quick summary of my most recent experiences:
Uhoo!
Full Stack Software Developer
- Developed a map-based social media app serving as a review engine, using Swift for frontend and backend coding
- Integrated location matching SDK to enhance user experience and engagement and utilized Google and Foursquare APIs
- Accelerated development lifecycle from 75% to completion to successful beta release, setting stage for public launch and user acquisition
- Teamed with design cohort using Figma to contribute to app's design and user interface
- Resolved technical challenges, crafted innovative solutions. Conducted code reviews, ensuring code quality and adherence to best practices
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Lavner Education
Software Engineer Intern
- Engineered and optimized the deployment of 50+ computing systems, streamlining ops and achieving a 25% reduction in technical issues
- Performed comprehensive software debugging and enhancements, improving application performance and user interface responsiveness
- Revamped curriculum and instituted a version control protocol for educational software resulting in 50% surge in productivity
May 2022 - Aug 2022
CodeLM
Programmer
- Designed and provided solutions to programming problems for a coding competition in Java and Python
- Organized and planned the logistics of the competition (i.e. grouping, timing, presentation, etc.)
- Synchronized code and design with 75+ programmers to create this event
- Oversaw competition, provided answers, assisted with debugging/troubleshooting
Sep 2017 - May 2020
Projects
Some of the noteworthy projects I have built:
Instalite
A social media platform geared towards cinema lovers that allows for connecting and real time chatting with friends, sharing reviews, and discovering new movies through an NLP search model. The app also features social news streaming with Apache Kafka, adsorption ranking of posts and personalized friend reccomendations with Apache Spark, as well as a unique feature that matches user profile pictures to similar actors using ChromaDB embeddings.
React
Next.js
Tailwindcss
Javascript
SQL
MySQL
Apache Kafka
Apache Spark
Amazon EC2
S3
ChromaDB
Amazon RDS
CSS
Testimonials
Nice things people have said about me:
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Krisztian Gyuris
Founder - inboxgenie.io
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Eugen Esanu
Founder - shosho.design
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Joe Matkin
Freelancer
Get in touch
Feel free to reach out to me if you are looking for a developer, have a question, or simply want to connect.
sberhane@seas.upenn.edu
+1 267.882.5057
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